Learned Helplessness and Self-Determination in Mental Health
People turn to mental health services as a source of help.
Addressing the Barriers to Treatment Adherence
When treating patients with serious mental illness (SMI), healthcare professionals need to keep the ultimate goal in mind: achieving better outcomes and improving quality of life. That might sound simple, but the reality can be much more complex – every patient is unique and will respond differently to […]
Crisis Intervention: A Guide To Emergency Response
Crisis Intervention workers need a comprehensive guide to emergency response for mental health consumers. This blog provides a strengths-based, clinical approach to crisis intervention. The blog will cover various topics, including psychiatric emergencies, suicide, and violence prevention; assessment and diagnostics; law enforcement and the criminal justice system; crisis […]
How The Fear Of Self-Disclosure Can Impact Your Mental Health
Share, feel free to disclose all aspects of your lived experience and mental health history.
THE MOMENTUM OF RECOVERY FROM A PEER SPECIALIST PERSPECTIVE
Recovery momentum will give you wings to go further
Goals For Happiness and Fulfillment
Reaching your goals takes energy
Social Networks and their impact on Mental Health
The impact can be scary
Peer Specialists: What’s In a Name?
Peers perform the same responsibilities, duties, and tasks as their higher-paid counterparts
MY STORY: MENTAL RELAPSE
I must admit how difficult it has been for me to stay mentally sane.
The Brazil-United States Center for the Promotion of Mental Health
The American School of Human Rights will promote the Mental Health Project in all regions of the world
Deputy Director of South American Affairs
Mental Health Affairs has always been an international mission at its core. Our vision is a final solution ⚡️⚡️. After all, the need for better mental health care has become an emergent worldwide crisis. As early as late summer, Mental Health Affairs began assimilating its new international rollout […]
CELEBRATING MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH
There are significant reasons for having Mental Health Awareness Month.
TREATMENT FIT WITH MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS
When I arrived at their E&R, I was taken into a room and told I was no longer welcome at the clinic and needed to go elsewhere for services.
Winter Storm Alert! Are We Prepared?
I try my best to deal with the cold
The Communication and Support That Allows Progress in Treatment
Patients are triggered by treatment providers without empathy
I WANT TO PUT CAHOOTS ON WATCH
We also need to think about what practice means given the current state regulatory instruments
Going to Social Work school with a Schizophrenia diagnosis
Careful about managing my schizophrenia symptoms
This is a PRO Tobacco Use Argument in Mental Health Settings
This trend defies the age-old image of ‘mentally ill’ folks pacing around outside their treatment center or a hospital smoking like chimneys
SPECIAL REPORT: Re-thinking ‘Extended Care’ units in State Hospital Centers
Remaining patients in the long-term state psychiatric centres must be discharged and released from the eternal holding
How a brain injury through an accident enabled the help, I deserved but wasn’t getting
I had been searching for 4 years starting in 2003 for a treatment that could help my whole sense of being.
Vitor Sallys Story according to His siter Vitoria Sallys
The mental health system brutally violated Vitor’s rights.
Human Rights Coalition for Latin America Mental Hygiene & Social Justice
The OBDH (Observatorio Brasileiro de Diretos Humanos) have been working intensively ever since its creation helping and supporting all Brazilian peopl
The Impact of Words on our Psyches
This is about you doing you, because no one else can do you better.
Gross Violence Against People with a Mental Health diagnosis in Brazil
On June 17, 2021, in Brazil, Police invaded a home and, with three shots, killed Hamilton Cesar Lima Bandeira, a 23 years old young man with a history of intellectual disabilities. According to his mother: ‘the police, after killing Hamilton Cesar with the three shots, police officers dragged […]
Working with a Mental Health diagnosis/disorder
Dictate what you want to do in life
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